19344 pts ยท September 16, 2011
And it's not not just the US making the comparison - UK, France, and Italy all have more expeditionary capability than Russia does
much limited to people next door - and Ukraine is proving their logistical setups are understrength even for that.
Any idiot can look at their TO&Es and see that, say, the US army is designed to invade countries all over the planet, Russia's pretty
Russia's army is structured way more defensively than NATO and that sure as shit hasn't stopped them from deciding to kill people with it.
To create the impression that there is someone who will show up to put you in a box if you just walk around town punching everyone
to do something about them before they get the nukes, trying to do it afterwards is what we call making a bad situation worse.
Logical if you're suicidal, maybe. If you don't want to have dictators who can shield themselves from consequences with nukes you need
over the internet for fun, which skews the counts.
It's possible they're not losing many, but it seems more likely that Ukrainians in Ukraine aren't splashing pictures of dead Ukrainians all
Highly misleading. This is using numbers of documented tanks lost, and no one is documenting Ukrainian tank losses.
Can we admit that some stuff is exploitation and some stuff is personal?
the massive numerical and technical superiority to fight like that. Ukraine's method is mostly the same as Russia's - fire up the artillery
Meh, the US mostly trains in the wrong kind of urban combat - ie how to clear a room without killing everyone on the block, when you have
When it doesn't, you just piled three elite tank armies into a giant kill zone because you put more emphasis on going fast than scouting.
When it works, you're putting tanks on your opponents' airfields while they're still reacting to moves you made five hours ago.
According to the officers I know who played OPFOR in war games, the Soviet doctrine is best understood as 'high risk, high reward'
I think that if this war is proving anything it's that Russia needs more officers in non-combat-arms roles. Which means logistics.
are that flag-rank officers alone exceed 1000
Don't what? Have hundreds of generals and thousands of colonels? If you've got a source please provide, estimates I have heard
And it's not not just the US making the comparison - UK, France, and Italy all have more expeditionary capability than Russia does
much limited to people next door - and Ukraine is proving their logistical setups are understrength even for that.
Any idiot can look at their TO&Es and see that, say, the US army is designed to invade countries all over the planet, Russia's pretty
Russia's army is structured way more defensively than NATO and that sure as shit hasn't stopped them from deciding to kill people with it.
To create the impression that there is someone who will show up to put you in a box if you just walk around town punching everyone
to do something about them before they get the nukes, trying to do it afterwards is what we call making a bad situation worse.
Logical if you're suicidal, maybe. If you don't want to have dictators who can shield themselves from consequences with nukes you need
over the internet for fun, which skews the counts.
It's possible they're not losing many, but it seems more likely that Ukrainians in Ukraine aren't splashing pictures of dead Ukrainians all
Highly misleading. This is using numbers of documented tanks lost, and no one is documenting Ukrainian tank losses.
Can we admit that some stuff is exploitation and some stuff is personal?
the massive numerical and technical superiority to fight like that. Ukraine's method is mostly the same as Russia's - fire up the artillery
Meh, the US mostly trains in the wrong kind of urban combat - ie how to clear a room without killing everyone on the block, when you have
When it doesn't, you just piled three elite tank armies into a giant kill zone because you put more emphasis on going fast than scouting.
When it works, you're putting tanks on your opponents' airfields while they're still reacting to moves you made five hours ago.
According to the officers I know who played OPFOR in war games, the Soviet doctrine is best understood as 'high risk, high reward'
I think that if this war is proving anything it's that Russia needs more officers in non-combat-arms roles. Which means logistics.
are that flag-rank officers alone exceed 1000
Don't what? Have hundreds of generals and thousands of colonels? If you've got a source please provide, estimates I have heard